Archive for August, 2011

This delightful and unexpected outburst occurs in the Epilogue of Robert Hughes new book Rome. Te Papa take note:

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

“Painting and sculpture are silent arts, and deserve silence (not phoney reverence, just quiet) from those who look at them. Let it be inscribed on the portals of the world’s museums: What you will see in here is not meant to be a social experience. Shut up and use your ...

WHY TALL POPPY SYNDROME IS A GOOD THING SOMETIMES

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

According to the Roman author Livy, writing about five centuries later, King Tarquin the Arrogant and his son Sextus Tarquinius (whom Classicists and Shakespeare scholars will recall would grow up to rape Lucretia, triggering the overthrow of Etruscan rule and the foundation of the Roman Republic) were one day wandering ...